Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Public Events
Description
The ‘University Treasury’ at the University of Tartu Museum displays the treasures of the University of Tartu, which was established in 1632. The exhibition explores the stories of people, studies and scientific achievements associated with the university and its people. The exhibition space is divided into five sections. The objects in the hall's central section speak about the university's administrative history - stories connected to the university's founding, the people who have led it, and various symbols of authority. The side walls are divided according to the university’s faculties: the Humanities and Art, the Social Sciences, Medical Sciences and Natural and Exact Sciences. The hall also includes the university’s innovative ideas and inventions. As the curator of the museum's medical collection, I was tasked with the medical sciences section of the exhibition: a skull with trepanation, rhinoplasty illustrations by Julius von Szymanowski, the first X-ray negative taken at the university in the Spring of 1896, a brain tumour sample from Ludvig Puusepp's neurosurgery collection and gastroscope used in Estonian Heliobacter pylori research.
Curators: Kaija-Liisa Koovit, Leili Kriis, Lea Leppik, Sirje Sisask, Kristiina Tiideberg, Tiina Vint